254 ss CELASTRINES. [ Siphonodon. — 
orny.—Trees with alternate leaves. Stipules minute, deciduous. 
Flowers rather small, in axillary poor umbels. 
1. §. celastrinus, Griff.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 629.—WMyouk-opshit. | 
—An evergreen tree (30—50+20—25+3—4), all parts glabrous; 4 
bark dark-grey, brittle, granular, rough from transverse short 4 
corky lenticels; cut dry, granular ; leaves oblong or elliptically — | 
oblong, acute at the base, shortly petioled, acuminate, 5-6 in. long, al 
crenate-serrate, chartaceous, glossy above, glabrous; flowers about 
4-5 lin. in diameter, yellowish, on 2 lin. long thick pedicels, either 
by minute bractlets ; berries the shape and size of a sma citron, 
elliptically obovoid to pyriform, on a eylindrical 4-6 lin. long 
peduncle, the pyrenes surrounded by the granular hard reddish- 
yellow endocarp. 
Has.—Frequent in the tropical forests of the eastern slopes of the Pegu 
Yomah and Martaban.—Fr. Jan.-May.—s.—SS,—Metam. SiS. 
Remarxs.-—Wood pale yellowish, heavy, of a coarse unequal fibre, hard and 
rather brittle, 
LOPHOPETALUM, Wight. 
celled, opening loculicidally into 3 valves. Seeds imbricate, broadly 
and elongate winged all round. Albumen none.—Trees with oppo 
site leaves. Stipules minute, deciduous. Flowers small, in terminal 
and axillary corymb-like panicles or cymes, 
* Petals fringedly crested on the upperside . , . ZL. fimbriatum. 
ae te Pi entire. 
Petioles an in. long or longer ; panicles white, quite glabrous, stiff oe 
and short; petals1jlin.long . . . . .  . Ey Wallichii. 
As former, but panicles large and slenderly branched ; flowers half 
as : * . * * * * . . . * . 
Petioles 3-4 lin. long; panicles while young fugaceousl rusty- : 
Wanbuiote «yy =e : a ’, . L. floribundum. 
